Advanced Playwriting

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The author of The Writer, considered one of the best British plays of the last season, proposes the exploration of whether new theatrical forms are necessary or something solid exists in the Greek dramatic principles that have survived since the times of Aristotle. Aristotelian principles suggest that unity of time,[...]

One of the most important French playwrights of all time proposes a workshop of discussion and debate around the ideas or projects that its participants are writing. Deep down, the main idea of this workshop is very simple: dramatic writing is a solitary practice, however much it is addressed at[...]

Cuban playwright González Melo, the winner of some of the most important awards on the Cuban and Spanish theatre scene, proposes an eminently practical course where he will consider how to construct what we cannot see in a play for theatre but that is indispensable for the plot. If dramatic[...]

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Sergio Blanco is one of Uruguay’s most interesting and international playwrights today, the author of Tebasland and La ira de Narciso, which could be seen at the Temporada Alta festival, is coming to Barcelona to teach a playwriting course. The focus of study for this seminar is the subject of[...]

Pau Miró, one of the best-consolidated Catalan playwrights, author of Un tret al cap, Victòria and Plou a Barcelona, is returning once more to the Beckett to teach an advanced course in playwriting, revolving around character construction. Taking into account that, to construct a character, first of all we have[...]

The author of George Kaplan, which was a complete sell-out a few seasons back, is returning to the Sala Beckett to offer a course on character creation. How does one create a portrait of an individual, of a character, from a polyphony? How does one create a fragmentary or staggered[...]

Anna Wakulik, one of the most interesting Polish playwrights of the moment, is coming to Barcelona to teach a course and present a play of hers that premiered to great success at the Royal Court Theatre in London. “It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to[...]

The participants in this seminar are authors recommended by collaborating institutions. We live in perhaps the safest time that any human being has ever lived in. We live in a time where death by warfare, for most people, in nearly every part of the world, is unlikely. We live in[...]